Stalling: Designing an urban layout in OO

Things took a rapid turn for the worse yesterday.

Mr. Hill rocked up yesterday with the overall intention to attack some O gauge planning for his layout. This has become so successful, despite being hardly begun, that he was inundated by phone calls enquiring about it as an exhibit for shows next year. Such is the price of stardom.

In addition, attention turned to the card layout and possible development of, as there were several recently built applicable items lying around. The general thrust of this was to rebuild Hopwood (see tab above) but in reverse plan, with purely Superquick kits and with a more generous FY.

From a direct flipped plan, things were moved about on 6 x 1' of area, then it dawned that with the mainly pull-push Southern stock envisaged, the release pointwork at the platform end became largely redundant and the whole thing started leaning towards the bastard child of a Futer's Fork and Minories.

This would only require three points as above. The scenics would be a 1960s style card building base with a couple of vintage Airfix items tossed in where needed, i.e. the butchered footbridge. The one or two figures on the platform are cast items from Dinky thus completing the vibe. The feel of it in my head would appeal to 'gentlemen of a certain age' and would definitely be the anti-DCC/sound approach.

Early days, but this has got definite legs on it. The O gauge, well that's todays workload and don't even mention the TT.....

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